Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtPhyllida Barlow: Staging an Occupation @ The Fruitmarket
Phyllida Barlow's current Fruitmarket Show sees her bring her monumental and spectacular sculpture to the Edinburgh Art Festival with great success Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
BooksSimon Napier-Bell on the unscrupulous history of the music business
The ultimate observer of the music business, Simon Napier-Bell talks us through its pharmaceutically fuelled history as chronicled in his all-encompassing book Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
ClubsGreg Wilson Talks Manchester Nightlife - Legend Nightclub: A Brief History
DJ Greg Wilson harks back to the heart of the original jazz-funk scene in Manchester, and the club where it all started – Legend Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Mary Watson
“My work explores the competitive nature of human beings. I am particularly interested in how we invent activities to express our obsessions and how we... Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – July 2015
July’s schedule boasts the buoyant sounds of Den Haan in Glasgow, first rate techno from DJ Bone in the capital and Sven Weisemann’s visit to Aberdeen. Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Books
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
With his debut novel, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats fame takes the soft, melancholy lyricism of his music and draws it out into a strange, sad novel. ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2015
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Film
Pet Sights and Sounds: Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy
Love & Mercy tells the story of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson without falling back on the many cliches of the music biopic. Director Bill Pohlad reveals how he brought the life of this troubled genius to the screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Books
101 Detectives by Ivan Vladislavic
'How toxic are you?' is the formidable question raised by South African author Ivan Vladislavic in his latest short story collection. Vladislavic commentates... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Books
S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin
In this farcical utopia, esoteric Russian writer Victor Pelevin fast-forwards our current culture – where the lines between fact and fiction are i... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
Fringe previews in Liverpool and Manchester: our picks
Preview season heats up in July – a cheap opportunity to take in the best of the Fringe before it's even begun. Here are our picks Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicViet Cong, Josh T. Pearson and Mikal Cronin with Strings & Horns join Utrecht's Le Guess Who? 2015
Sets by Deerhunter, Faust, Destroyer and a strand curated by drone godfathers SunnO))) head up the brilliantly eclectic line-up for the four-day Le Guess Who... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
AC/DC @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 28 June
When you’re a band that’s been around as long as AC/DC, you’re no stranger to your own strengths and weaknesses. “I hope you came for... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: July 2015
ARIESThe US announces plans to fit the moon with a giant googly eye to prove that God exists. It is hoped that centrifugal force will allow the googly eye to... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Art
Birthdays, Catapults and Juvenile Delinquency: Scottish art news for July 2015
Throughout July, there are celebrations, openings, discussion events and a kayak filled with 200 litres of whisky Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Teen Men – Teen Men
Teen Men should be easy to write off as mere zeitgeist imitators: spikey muted guitar, afropop percussion, a lush production complete with what sounds like h... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015